Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-05
TERSE AND. TIMELY.

d MANI woman trusts her husband when
he can't get trusted by anybody else. #s
A LOVER OF statistics has calculated
that 10, 800 stitches are required for hand
sewed shirt. II 4 iii; # S75 ss< yss' y.
B A MEXICAN has been selling to the un.
wary at San Jose, Cal, nuggets Of tin-foil,
representing them to be Of silver. Is .$ Be- Z
Two Oil Cry idiots had cigarette
smoking match the other day, and the win
ner consumed fifty cigarettes in an hour to
the LOSERS forty five.
A, CANADIAN editor describes his contem.
porary as '"that freak against NATURES
laws sandwiched between a weazened-up
soul and diseased Imagination
JOSEPH Rabbit, a fireman at the court
house in st. Louis, has fallen heir to 49,
700, 900 by the death Of his uncle. also
named Joseph Rabbit, at Melbourne, Aus
tralia ~.s- z ss
EDWARD SoRuaes, Of Nashville, Tenn, is
totally blind, and goes. about led by me-
gro boy. Yet he tran business better
than most men, and in the past year has
made 800, 600 by real estate speculation.
MRS. SALLY GILLETTE, Of: Buckland,
Mass, celebrated her one hundredth birth
day recently. She shook hands with two
hundred friends who called to congratulate
her, and it is said "showed rare social
powers"
CAPTAIN JOHN A. DoKr, who recently
died at Mantle, Mass, aged eighty-seven,
was the last survivor of the Washington
Artillery OF Boston in attendance at the
laying OF the corners stone of the Bunker
Hill Monument.
Bob FORD, the slayer of Jesse James,
has spent all the money that he may have
received for doing the deed and also all
that he made by exhibiting himself in
dime museums, and is now waiter in a
restaurant at Santa Fe, n NJ.
A REMARKABLY fine otter skin reached
Portland, Ore, from Aslaska the other
day. 1t appeared to have belonged to an
old otter, as it was quite gray around. the
nose and down the belly, which fact added
to its value, which was 1926.
WALTER HUNTER, a Pittsburgh street.
car conductor, has been at the business
since November 4, and in that time has
found six pocket books, containing $50 and
less, and has found the owners, too His
last find was note for $4,000.
THERE is in Lincoln, CAL, young man
whose eyes are very like an OWLS. He can
see but little in daylight, scarcely at all in
the sunlight, but at night his vision is per-
feet His wonderful sight has been tested
by many, and as guide at night he has no
equal.
'RoBERr" an old black horse that car
RED General Hartranft during the first
Bull Run and was ridden by him over other
''foughten fields,' died recently at Bridge
port, Pa, aged thirty-tive years. When
he was in his prime Robert was quick
one, and had 2:42 record on the Norris
town track.
q. T. NELSON, of Chester, ILL.,, owns a
Scotch terrier which has for several years
been addicted othe use of malt beverages.
Whenever he gets chance he visits the
slop trough under the beer faucet in the
city saloons, laps the beer with evident
satisfaction until drunk, and then goes
staggering off as silly as any sot
NEAR Lincolnton, Ga, is spring whose
waters are said to have the properties for
which Ponce de Leon was seeking when he
discovered Florida. AS proof that the
water is conducive to longevity, it is said
that the inhabitants of q 'age near the
spring have all lived to d remarkable old
age. The youngest person known to die in
the house was 80 years old. Another lived
to be 95; another 10; and the present oc-
cupant claims to be lis years old. 1t is just
possible the virtue may be in the old cabin
and not in the spring.